$30 a year and streaming only? yuck no thanks, the lifetime pass might have been tempting IF it wasn’t streaming1400 retro games have been added to Xbox, largely thanks to Phil Spencer
1400 retro games have been added to Xbox, largely thanks to Phil Spencer | VGC
Antstream Arcade credits Spencer for helping to bring its library to the console…www.videogameschronicle.com
This arrives on Xbox shortly after Microsoft killed off emulation. Really gets the noggin' joggin'...
Players can either buy a year’s subscription to the service for $29.99 / £29.99, or a Lifetime Pass Edition for $79.99 / £79.99.
While Antstream Arcade is available on PC and mobile, the Xbox version is a separate product and users will have to create a separate account for it.
Agreed. I think it would be great, if they made them downloadable. Id be happy to buy a lot of these games as digital downloads too. they need to look into that..... get their emulator running native on xbox then sell retro games through it...seeing as hamster and M2 been leaving xbox out of the fun lately.....$30 a year and streaming only? yuck no thanks, the lifetime pass might have been tempting IF it wasn’t streaming
plus it says you have to have a separate account for the Xbox version so you can’t pay once and be able to play on it + PC + mobile
Dev mode works fine. You just have to wait a bit for start-up.Dev mode sounds better and better the more I hear/read.
I bought it, and the streaming works fine. That's not the problem with this service. The interface sucks, and from the advertised 1300 games, only about 300 or so show up. Also there are no emulation options, like adjusting the screen size or adding filters, and there are no difficulty options. (Some of those old arcade games are brutally hard!)$30 a year and streaming only? yuck no thanks, the lifetime pass might have been tempting IF it wasn’t streaming
plus it says you have to have a separate account for the Xbox version so you can’t pay once and be able to play on it + PC + mobile
Publishers treat games like consumables. Play and forget.$30 a year and streaming only? yuck no thanks, the lifetime pass might have been tempting IF it wasn’t streaming
Same here, I bought the lifetime package. Not only are the problems there you've listed but some games dont have the music..I bought it, and the streaming works fine. That's not the problem with this service. The interface sucks, and from the advertised 1300 games, only about 300 or so show up. Also there are no emulation options, like adjusting the screen size or adding filters, and there are no difficulty options. (Some of those old arcade games are brutally hard!)
I think this service has a lot of potential, but they have work to do.
Dont worry, this is just the start. Wait till everythings streaming only and on a pure subscription basisC64 games? Yes, let me use 6000 kilobytes of bandwidth per second for 1080p streaming to play a 200 kilobyte game from 1985 that natively runs at 320x200.
lmao
Emulation was the single reason I used my Series S. Now this? $30 a year for roms?
Gtfo
Emulation was the single reason I used my Series S. Now this? $30 a year for roms?
Gtfo
Not here it isnt. I took it offline ages ago, got two Series S' and and X fully loadedRetail is DEAD dead now
Not here it isnt. I took it offline ages ago, got two Series S' and and X fully loaded
Just waiting for the day it pulls some MS bullshit and wants to 'go online'
Not a bad little screen that. Not the best made but certainly does the job. Bit of a pisser if you want to use it on the X mind you.Now *THAT* is the ultimate emulation portable you've got right there.
Woah, bans and suspensions. I knew the return of retail would be short lived but didn’t expect that kind of retaliation from MS.
It's kinda ironic that MS just called for game preservation a few years ago, and they pull this. I get not emulating stuff that's still being sold, like Switch and even 360/PS3 stuff. But PS2 and earlier is a mystery.
It's kinda ironic that MS just called for game preservation a few years ago, and they pull this. I get not emulating stuff that's still being sold, like Switch and even 360/PS3 stuff. But PS2 and earlier is a mystery.
I honestly don’t think they will. I think Dev Mode is what is keeping the people who hack consoles from getting really far as they have a means to do it rather easily. A friend of mine has hacked his PS5 at this point and plays with it all the time, but for the Xbox he keeps it in Dev Mode.It's a matter of time before MS do the same for dev mode emulators
Emulation was the single reason I used my Series S. Now this? $30 a year for roms?
Gtfo
No not for roms, for a stream
That is one specific retail game, the price and cloud model is done by its publisher, it has nothing to do with this topic and the emulation scene.
There is no doubt that the release of this had to do with the emulation crackdown.I think we get it, it had nothing to do with it other than the funny timing of when MS decided to pull the plug on it